Definition of bell

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Bell (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck..

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Peal :: Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells..
Bellman :: Bellman (n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..
Cresselle :: Cresselle (n.) A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the last week of Lent..
Belligerently :: Belligerently (adv.) In a belligerent manner; hostilely.
Ting :: Ting (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle..
Belly-god :: Belly-god (n.) One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..
Bellows Fish :: Bellows fish () A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish..
Belly :: Belly (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.
Tympanites :: Tympanites (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.
Sumless :: Sumbul (n.) The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant..
Flowery :: Flowery (a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style..
Chime :: Chime (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments..
Lowbell :: Lowbell (n.) A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep.
Mounting :: Mounting (n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond..
Ringer :: Ringer (n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells..
Sagittocyst :: Sagittocyst (n.) A defensive cell containing a minute rodlike structure which may be expelled. Such cells are found in certain Turbellaria.
Centriscoid :: Centriscoid (a.) Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example..
Campanile :: Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church..
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